Security: How a bug in Visual Studio 2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500 in a few hours
Wow! Amazon and the Hackers are both continuously scanning public repositories for passwords!
This story should make you reconsider where you leave your credit card information… things might get out of hand, even if you think that you are just using a free service …
Agile: Avoiding the most common pitfall of large-scale agile
Gojko wrote an interesting article about the current trend of scaling Agile. Unconventional as always, he draws anaglogies with “The Lord of the Rings” and escaping a concentration camp in WWII.
He argues that our industry is obsessed with effort instead of focusing on outcome.
His main explanaition why Agile does not scale in most attempts is:
On a small scale, effort does boost outcome.[…] On a larger scale, effort no longer directly relates to results.
Salary in IT: An endless topic on Quora
Interesting to see different perspectives. Although I have a hard time to take the second answer seriously. In my experience not many enterprises are looking for the mythical “10x engineer” and are willing to pay these extravagant figures …
Stack overflow has also some info about salaries.
SwissJS: Videos of the sessions are online
If you missed SwissJS last July, the recorded sessions are now available on YouTube.
If you just want to watch one session, I recommend “Creating UIs for the WebA Audio API” by Stephen Band. His usage of the browser to create music is impressive and its a refreshing non-enterprisy topic.
Video: How to make your code sustainable
Christin Gorman is adressing the problem of over-engineering in typical business applications. This one is more serious than previous presentations by her, but she kept her refreshing way to present …
How to make your code sustainable - what they don't teach you - Christin Gorman from JavaZone on Vimeo.
Community: First JS Community Meeting in Berne
Four intereting talks. I am looking forward to this event …
Tweets of the Week
The only lasting frontend-dev trend in the last 10 years has been “Put stickers on laptops"
— Per Ploug (@pploug) September 9, 2015haha @hijinksensue predicted this in 2012 pic.twitter.com/dCr4tc94vR
— Filip W (@filip_woj) September 9, 2015
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